On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 13:38 +0100, Michael Kallas wrote: > Alex Hudson schrieb: > > On what basis do you suspect the Rosen book is bad, btw? > > > > (Aside from the coverage of 'controversies', eg. SCO, I was of the > > impression it was basically a factual hand-in-hand walk through basic IP > > law?) > > As there is nothing common in patents, copyright and trademark laws and > as they have very different histories, putting them together into one > pot called "Intellectual Property" is very bad.
Referring to them collectively is not bad; making statements about them collectively is - it's completely different. If you go into any law bookshop, you'll find virtually every introductory textbook on those laws groups them together. Suspecting a book is bad simply because it contains a "bad word" in the title is about the clearest form of judging a book by its cover that I can think of. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
